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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/resources/how-we-ensure-transparency/) [Description](#description)[Use cases](#use-cases)[Alternatives](#alternatives)[Features](#features)[Pricing](#pricing)[Integrations](#integrations)[Support](#support)[Reviews](#reviews) Karate Labs ## What is Karate Labs? Karate is an open-source unified test automation platform combining API testing, API performance testing, API mocks & UI testing. Karate customers typically save 80% time when writing tests for a single endpoint, use 60% less code, tests execute faster and integrate seamlessly into existing infrastructure. 1+ million monthly downloads, use by 415+ companies including 42 of the Fortune 500, are a testimony of Karate making “Test Automation Simple”. ## What is Karate Labs used for? [Automated Testing](https://www.capterra.com/automated-testing-software/)[API Management](https://www.capterra.com/api-management-software/)[Application Development](https://www.capterra.com/application-development-software/) Top alternative Featured Overall rating Based on 14 user reviews Reviews sentiment Positive \- Neutral \- Negative \- Starting price $100 Per User, Per Month Free trial available Capterra Shortlist charts the highest-rated and most popular products... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Our "Best of" badge program showcases products with the highest ratings... Do you work for Karate Labs?[Manage this product listing](https://digitalmarkets.gartner.com/get-listed/claim-bx?url=https://www.karatelabs.io&name=Karate Labs) ## Compare with a popular alternative Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status. ### Karate Labs 4.8 (14) VS. [4.6 (70)](https://www.capterra.com/p/191345/Applivery/reviews/) Starting Price $100 Flat Rate, Per Month Starting Price $2 Per User, Per Month Free Trial Free Version Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version Ease Of Use 4.9 (14) Ease Of Use 4.8 (70) Value For Money 4.8 (12) Value For Money 4.3 (64) Customer Service 4.8 (11) Customer Service 4.5 (63) ## Karate Labs alternatives [4.5 (195)](https://www.capterra.com/p/118128/New-Relic/reviews/) Starting price $10.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 92% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.4 (15,353)](https://www.capterra.com/p/19319/JIRA/reviews/) Starting price $7.91 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 91% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [4.7 (153)](https://www.capterra.com/p/143607/kintone/reviews/) Starting price $24.00 Per User, Per Month Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 95% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars Highest Rated [4.8 (60)](https://www.capterra.com/p/204945/Octopus/reviews/) Starting price Contact vendor for pricing Pricing Options Free Trial Free Version User Rating 100% of reviewers rated it above 4 stars [View all alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/10008803/Karate-Labs/alternatives/) ## Features Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically. Supports Parallel Execution 4.8 (13) 61.54% of 13 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Run multiple tests simultaneously in different environments or parts of the code base API 4.8 (12) 75.00% of 12 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Reporting & Statistics 4.6 (8) 50.00% of 8 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns Quality Assurance 4.9 (7) 114.29% of 7 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Systematic evaluation of various aspects of a project or service to prevent defects or issues Third-Party Integrations 4.6 (7) 100.00% of 7 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes Data Import/Export 4.8 (5) 60.00% of 5 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important Import and export data to and from software applications Karate Labs 12 features Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases Import and export data to and from software applications Detect and remove errors A visual way of interacting with an application or operating system using items such as windows, icons, and menus An application for source code editing, compiling, and debugging Technique where run time behavior of software under test is checked against predictions made by a model Allows developers to check if their applications/web browsers are running as expected. Systematic evaluation of various aspects of a project or service to prevent defects or issues Active reporting of data and metrics Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns Run multiple tests simultaneously in different environments or parts of the code base Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes Features 4.6 (14) 4.6 Based on 14 reviews ## Pricing Value for money 4.8 (12) Free Trial Free Version [View pricing plan details](https://www.capterra.com/p/10008803/Karate-Labs/pricing/) PLUS $100.00 Per User, PRO $640.00 Per User, ENTERPRISE $1,400 Other, Value for money 4.8 (12) 4.8 Based on 12 reviews ## Integrations [ GitHub](https://www.capterra.com/p/129067/GitHub/)[ Jenkins](https://www.capterra.com/p/171026/Jenkins/)[ Apache Kafka](https://www.capterra.com/p/228468/Apache-Kafka/)[ FrameFlow](https://www.capterra.com/p/178231/FrameFlow/) ## Support, customer service and training options Customer Service 4.8 (11) Support - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat Training - In Person - Live Online - Webinars - Documentation - Videos Deployment - Web - Android - iPhone/iPad Typical users - Freelancers - Small businesses - Mid size businesses - Enterprises Customer Service 4.8 (11) 4.8 Based on 11 reviews ## User reviews Overall rating 4.8 Based on 14 reviews Filter by rating 5(11) 4(3) 3(0) 2(0) 1(0) Mentioned topic Sorted by most recent LK Lina K. Head Of QA Computer Software ### "Speed up your automation and make everyone understand what you're testing" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 May 7, 2024 It is great, I've implemented it in 3 different companies already. It allows me to start covering my API with tests right away and in a fast pace Pros Ease of setup, ease of writing tests even for juniors and the fact that it uses Gherkin, allows everyone to understand the tests. Cons Visual testing still need some improvement, Karate is strong for API and performance tests Switched from [Postman](https://www.capterra.com/p/188497/Postman/) Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor August 26, 2024 Hi Lina: we thank you for your feedback and the continued support to Karate. Please keep sharing insights on the new features the community will like to see in Karate. MA Mauricio A. QA Tester Computer Software ### "Karate Labs Product according to my experience" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 7/10 May 6, 2024 Until now, very good, I only had a problem with the logs and my CI tool, but in general it is a good tool to automate API tests Pros It is easy to understand and the executions are quick and clean Cons The price of the product, I know that the product needs a revenue to keep working, but the price can make that other testers may prefer using cheaper options Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor August 26, 2024 Hi Mauricio: Thank you for your feedback. Karate open-source continues to remain open-source and free under the MIT license. Users/teams/Enterprise can continue to download and use Karate open-source using Maven, Gradle, Standalone Jar, Docker, NPM and JBang. The Karate plugins have been proprietary software (not open-source) since we launched the IntelliJ plugin (June 2022) and VS Code extension (Sep 2022). Our ambition is: • Build a principled company, not driven by market valuation. • Stand on our own feet – not be driven by venture capital. • For which we need to be profitable to continue investing in the open-source code and elevating test automation experience. The ROI from the adoption of Karate delivers the efficiency for testers. Cheaper is not necessarily better. We look forward to your continued support to Karate. KJ Kanishka J. QA Automation Lead Computer Software ### "Awesome Tool" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 4.0 4.0 Likelihood to Recommend 9/10 May 6, 2024 Very satisfied. It has made my automation work very efficient. Pros It is an excellent tool in all sense. Used it for both API and UI automation. Found pretty amazing with parallel execution, negligible flakiness, code less automation. Cons Gatling is not yet up to the mark as much as Jmeter. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Response from Vendor August 26, 2024 Thank you, Kanishka, for the review. Please write to us on specific features you will like to see in Karate for API performance testing. Nathan C. Senior Software Engineer in Test Computer Software ### "Simple tests are easy, built-in features can be augmented with Java/JavaScript" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 July 28, 2023 This solution is easy to teach to people without a lot of coding experience, but it is capable of being extended by those with a deeper skillset. Because Karate also uses Scenarios in Feature files, teams who are using a Cucumber framework can create Karate tests which live alongside legacy Cucumber tests, enabling a team to increase productivity by developing tests which are faster and more stable, while continuing to run their legacy tests. Both tests can exist side-by-side, in the same repository, so the team doesn't have to switch all at once. As Cucumber tests are rewritten in Karate, tags can be adjusted to coordinate which tests are run by which framework. Pros Karate is an excellent solution for API testing and works well for UI testing as well. I have used it with both Selenium and Playwright for browser automation. It has an extensive set of features with lots of useful capabilities built-in. When more advanced, custom capabilities are needed, the built-in functionality can be augmented using Java and/or JavaScript. We can easily make use of any available Java library and we can manipulate Java objects while debugging in a way which is not typical when working with Java. New code can be written and executed at runtime, while debugging, which makes for very quick development in a very productive, interactive workflow. The framework is very well documented. Cons There are some aspects of working with Karate that take some getting used to. For instance, it is a bit odd at first for one scenario to call another scenario as if it were a function, but once you learn how it works, it is easy to work with. Review source Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. RI Robert I. Staff SDET Biotechnology ### "An absolute MUST in your test automation toolbox!" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 July 17, 2023 Karate has made it a whole lot easier to solve some very complex testing scenarios that involve initializing third-party components, setting up test data, running API tests, followed by web and desktop UI tests, sometimes even combining them within one feature file. It also greatly simplified the post-execution steps for capturing test runs for compliance purposes. I have onboarded several engineers to use Karate and observed their proficiency in the framework grow very rapidly. Karate is truly a breath of fresh air when it comes to often daunting and complex world of test automation! Pros I've been using Karate for 4+ years now and it's been a great experience all around! First off, the documentation is very comprehensive and includes great examples. As a low-code framework, it is relatively easy to adopt for programmers of all levels. Its VS Code plugin enhances development and debugging experience. One of my most favorite features is its support of variety of different types of testing - API, web UI, desktop UI, performance, etc. The framework comes with a highly detailed test execution report, which can be very handy for debugging. Cons It's hard to think of any downsides of Karate, really. My only slight gripe that comes to mind has to do with error messages. Specifically those thrown by the JS engine, which can be ambiguous and sometimes hard to decipher. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Oscar B. Senior Quality Engineer Telecommunications ### "Karate is a great swiss-army knife of the automation test community" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 June 28, 2023 I am using karate to automate the API testing and end-to-end of a number of core microservices as well as Redis and Kafka. Pros Karate is easy to write tests once then duplicate or re-create for other teams purpose and scope. I also love the fact that almost no development or code is required to get started. This makes handing over and teaching how to write automated tests for my team a simple task.I also love the speed and accuracy with which test logic and assertions can occur. And the framework is very flexible for integration Cons It would be nice to know if there is a clear frontrunner to use gradle or maven to base the build off. Likewise it would be good to have one 'preferred' http client. Reasons for choosing Karate Labs A number of reasons to choose karate over something like Selenium. First off, the biggest drawcard is not having to continuously write new Java and Cucumber code. Karate's seamless DSL being integrated into Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. SW stuart w. Executive Director OpenTravel Information Technology and Services ### "Karate tools may be key to travel API interoperability. " 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 June 6, 2023 How to use a mock tool to provide hands on information and experience on travel API sequences. Communicating workflow on the 10s of thousands on travel APIs published is a nightmare and a huge cost driver. Having a more uniform approach for all travel companies to explain how their APIs actually work and in what order can make a huge difference. Karate can make this simple and cheap. Pros They listen. Pretty simple act but most tool vendors don't listen. They think they already know your problem and their product is of course the soliton. The Karate team actually listened to understand what we really needed and worked to meet the need. Cons It's not a dislike, just noting they are a small organization. Hoping with success they grow to be able to meet even more challenges. They have a good culture to build on. Reasons for choosing Karate Labs As I mentioned. They listened to my problem and worked to create a solution. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. BK Brijesh K. Sr architect Hospital & Health Care ### "Enable speed with quality" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 4.0 4.0 Features 4.0 4.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 8/10 May 31, 2023 I am a very happy customer of karate labs especially because of Low No-code with bdd feature helping even capability building for manual test engineers towards automation. Pros Simple & Ease of useEase of Onboarding (project and engineers)ReportingBDD Cons Performance testing scripts if that can be in Java instead of Scala, Same tech stack could help maintenance. Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. Lyubomir L. SW Test Team Lead Telecommunications ### "The one stop automation suite" 5.0 Overall Rating 5.0 5.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 5.0 5.0 Customer Service 5.0 5.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 May 30, 2023 I've been doing automation since the days of IBM Rational Robot and QTP. For all this years, automation was a high effort/low result exercise. After we adopted an of the shelf tool in the last year, and due to it's high price I had to migrate all tests to Karate. It took me just 1 month to develop the whole suite from selenium based mess to karate. Pros \- Can be adopted fast even by non QAs- GIT- Full control of your suite- API, but more importantly WEB UI testing - so easy- Docker the tests! Just find some random linux machine as your executor, no VMS, no AWS - just a linux console- Complete control of automating APIs - we use it for monitoring, to slack a report, to do the API tests- Good support- Easy to understand Cons \- Support, but I know that it will be improved in the future Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. GB gilbert b. Senior software engineer Financial Services ### "Karate review" 4.0 Overall Rating 4.0 4.0 Ease of Use 5.0 5.0 Features 3.0 3.0 Customer Service 0.0 0.0 Likelihood to Recommend 10/10 May 24, 2023 Pros Karate is very easy to use, integration was straight forward and simple to integrate we our project Cons I wish there is builtin integration for testing kafka and databases Review source Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication. [View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/10008803/Karate-Labs/reviews/) ## Top-rated software of 2026 ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox. 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